Just a few minutes ago the Langholm Moor Community Buyout passed its fundraising target -but I’m sure they’d like a little more too.
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Best bird book of 2020?
The Birdwatch Birders’ Choice awards allow you to vote for the best bird book of the year. These are the five short-listed books: Red Sixty Seven All the Birds of the World Multimedia Identification Guide: shearwaters Diary of a Young Naturalist Moult and Ageing of European Passerines I’ve only read one of these books, but…
Waiting, waiting, waiting…
One does wonder what the Scottish government is waiting for – surely it has made up its mind on the Werritty report. Why dither any longer? But the words in this recent response to correspondence do look vaguely promising.
Don’t forget the Red-legged Partridges
Red-legged Partridges are common birds on much of continental Europe but they are non-natives here in the UK. I’d be less worried about their impacts on native fauna and flora than that of Pheasants whose natural range brings them nowhere near the UK. But the fact that over 10 million RLPs are released for recreational…
Birders’ behaviour during the pandemic (so far)
This open-access publication looks at birders’ behaviour across a large number of countries and, surprise surprise, most birders have been affected by a global health pandemic. It’s not just you who didn’t get out so much! The paper rightly suggests that citizen science studies will be affected by recent and ongoing movement restrictions but also…